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Background Net survival, a measure of the survival where the patients would only die from the cancer under study, may be compared between treatment groups using either “cause-specific methods”, when the causes of death are known and accurate, or “population-based methods”, when the causes are missing or inaccurate. The latter methods rely on the assumption that mortality due to other causes than cancer...
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